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While the literature reports increasing interest in the applications of Design Thinking (DT) in the field of public administration in general, a gap persists in academic reflections about the specific role of DT in informing policy and program evaluation. This article makes a conceptual and methodological contribution to this last debate. Part of the proposed reflection is meta-theoretical, allowing the identification of commonalities between the epistemological foundations of the DT and one evaluation school, in particular: pragmatic evaluation. In a second analytical moment, the text examines some epistemological limitations of pragmatism (as a research paradigm) to ground causal conclusions in social inquiry. This is not a trivial matter since the very essence of evaluation is, precisely, the identification of causal dynamics unleashed by social interventions. It is possible to amend some of these problems in a DT-based evaluation by adopting some epistemological principles from Critical Realism. A brief discussion of two applied evaluations of education interventions in Colombia led by the authors serves to illustrate some methodological implications of these last arguments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In Colombia, as of the 1991 Political Constitution, the State is recognized as multi-ethnic and multicultural. The objective of the research is to describe how the social responsibility of the public administration and participatory planning are associated in the formulation of development plans with indigenous communities, in four municipalities of northern Cauca (Santander de Quilichao, Caloto, Jambaló, and Toribío). The research methodology is based on the actor-network theory, in order to trace the associations in the composition of social responsibility in national public policy, and the worldviews of indigenous peoples. The techniques used were documentary analysis, individual and group interviews, participant observation, and descriptive writing. The results of the research are, participatory planning has different expressions; there is "freedom" in the methodologies used; the local government faces ethnic complexity in its territories. The main conclusions are, participatory planning activities require trained personnel who recognize ethnic diversity; more appropriate methodologies must be innovated to address diversity; "Social responsibility" is part of the 1991 Constitution, but it is still far from operational activities in multi-ethnic territories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since 2010, the need to professionalize the mayor's profile has been debated in Colombia, a proposal that arises based on the low performance levels of many municipal administrations. However, during the development of this research it was possible to demonstrate that there is no direct relationship between the levels of professionalization of local mayors and their overall performance; additionally, it was shown that there are a number attributes that are decisive in the performance of a municipal mayor. Therefore, from a mixed research, carried out during 2017 and 2018, the level of performance was evaluated from a longitudinal series, based on information available on former mayors of the Colombian capitals for the last three constitutional periods (2007-2015), which made it possible to find the factors with the greatest impact on their performance, which allowed guiding an institutional adjustment, after three decades of having adopted in Colombia the popular election of mayors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The modern public administration seeks to strengthen its institutions, based on the implementation of new public policies that meet the needs of citizens and ensure compliance with the essential purposes of the State. Thus, the institutions must concentrate their efforts on achieving the programmed goals, proposing policies based on the implementation of merit as affirmative action for the benefit of the community and, causing a rethinking of the administrative function, which in turn translates, in the need to build institutional capacity for development, to implement transparency mechanisms and generate favorable conditions to address the collective problems that arise in a dynamic population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Colombian State, through its institutions, has as its goal the fulfillment of Human Rights and the Political Constitution of 1991 through policies and procedures, mostly administrative in the exercise of Public Function. Turning that function into a reality is, generally, thanks to the level or projection of investments through the Government Contract, with its applicable principles and norms; in any adverse situation and during all fiscal periods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article is intended to remark the importance of the mayor's position, from both its political dimension and also from his/her functions as a public server. For that purpose a revision to the corresponding law is made, from the Colombian Constitution to the legal decisions referred to the mayor's responsibility as a public server and as the representative of his/ her town. Besides, an especial emphasis on the necessity of making sure the mayors know and apply the rules for public administration and territorial governance to duly accomplish their functions is made. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from the acknowledgement of the importance of accountability for contemporary public administrations, this article develops both conceptual approaches about accountability and a case study, that of Colombia. The objective of the article is to analyze the institutional design for accountability in the Colombian case, in order to identify its breaking points and make a valoration based on relevant stakeholders' perceptions in the public administration. The resulting panorama is more complex than the dichotomy on accountability deficit-overload would suggest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The application of principles and rules of private law to the activity and organization of the public administration is an event that has permeated various legal systems by virtue of the assumption and reformulation of certain purposes and models of the state management. However, one could say that the "escaping of administrative law" phenomenon par excellence, belongs to the Spanish law because of the intensity it had reached, as well as its correlative impact on the administrative doctrine. This is the reason why this abstract investigates its legal background, motivations and doctrinal positions. From here on, there is a contrast between the phenomenon of the escaping with the peculiarities of the Colombian legal system. Thus, they argue that although Colombia has not been exempt of remissions to private law, in any case, it has not had the same depth and force as the Spanish law. Thus, on account of the same dynamic of our decentralized administration as for the doctrinal differences of our country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In recent years, significant changes in the forms of Government have occurred in Colombia, as a consequence of many different institution related factors, inter alia the availability of new tools for civil society's participation, decentralization and political parties' reform. These factors have redefined activities and relationships of local Government's actors, among themselves, the councilpersons. From the governance standpoint, this paper aims to lead to a better understanding of councilpersons and their relationships with other stakeholders that are also people's representatives: public and private organizations. Availability of empirical data on this subject is very limited in this country, and the city of Medellin is a case in point. Based on the identified trends (cooperation, mediation, competition and lack of relationship), the article highlights the prevalence of cooperative relations and concludes that the principles of "positive" governance (plurality, interdependence and cooperation in management), are tempered by several factors, including political and institutional changes and the characteristics, motivations and strategies of the actors involved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this essay is to propose a reflection on government techniques as ways to produce subjectivities, where rural poverty and the new forms of urban subject coexist. These techniques coexist with the emergence of a Reason of State founded on exclusionary practices based on the inclusion of objects to govern. Thus, the excess of the presidential figure means new objects to new dangers, the redefinition of an itinerant subject, the validation of poverty as material and necessary condition of the government. Specifically, it presents the administration of the poor as a reflection of the political form of government, i.e., a specific expression of a particular Reason of State. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article examines the effects of environmental regulation in the adoption of technologies to reduce discharges by industries in Santander, Colombia, in relation to other decisive factors such as market and community pressure. It also contains an evaluation of the way in which entrepreneurial capacity, the policy style of the regulator and the degree of interaction of enterprises in innovation networks affect the degree and direction of the adoption of technologies. For this purpose, original data from interviews and surveys are used. The results show that investment in environmental technology is explained largely as a response by businesses to pressure from direct regulation, and that the larger the business, the greater the effect. In order to reduce additional costs associated with the payment of the effluent charge, some businesses have adopted good housekeeping practices, and recover by-products of the treatment of their waste water. This study provides evidence of the growing role of the regulator as a source of technical advice for business. Finally, results confirm that the ability of businesses to access networks and to reap the benefits of their interaction depends on the capacities which encourage innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]